[address-policy-wg] Anycast assignments for ENUM/TLD registries

Jim,

Jim Reid wrote:
> 
>> This layer 9 stuff
>> aside, I'm still uncertain whether the assignment goes to the registry
>> itself
>> or to some operator who provides name service for TLDs (or ENUM, for that
>> matter).  The former makes more sense to me.
> 
> I am still not certain the latest draft resolves this confusion either.
> 
> I strongly believe that the assignment should go to the registry and not
> the provider of registry or DNS services for that registry. Even if
> these are the same entity, their roles and their responsibilities are
> different. On a practical level, the TLD or Tier-1 administrator might
> want to split their anycast assignment between DNS providers: say
> discrete /24s to each of them. This wouldn't be easy to do (or change)
> if that anycast assignment was held by their registry operator. And
> suppose the registry has a serious disagreement its registry operator or
> the back-end provider changes when the contract goes out to tender.

I agree that the assignment should go to the registry.

--
Shane